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description: This meant that he must provide a sea-going canoe with mat sails, sufficiently large to carry a number of persons and food for many days. Who acts: This, Moemoea. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 9

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This meant that he must provide a sea-going canoe with mat sails, sufficiently large to carry a number of persons and food for many days.

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**Who acts:** This, Moemoea · **What happens:** mean, provide, go, carry · **To what, where:** going canoe, number · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Moemoea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:5:9
# text = This meant that he must provide a sea-going canoe with mat sails, sufficiently large to carry a number of persons and food for many days.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | This |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **provide** | must | Moemoea | a going canoe |  |  |  | with mat sails | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent canoe=Recipient with sail=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sea *compound* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | a number of persons and food |  |  | day |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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